The idea of a “service mesh” has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years and the number of alternatives available has risen. There are four open-source products available today: (i) Linkerd (sponsored by Buoyant). It was built on
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, is in the process of launching a startup called Inrupt, whose aim is to decentralize the web. Inrupt will be built using Solid, a decentralized web platform that Berners-Lee has been building for many
The router market is largely controlled by the big vendors like Cisco and Juniper that spend a lot of time and money developing a rich feature set, mainly routing protocols. However, there are also multiple open-source BGP routing stacks in
Amazon Web Services recently introduced Firewall Manager and a range of other new security tools to help its cloud customers have access to tools that are easier to use, manage and understand. Speaking at the AWS Summit in San Francisco
AV1 compression is finally here with a release from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) and its industry partners who are dominant players across the codec development, video encoding, delivery and playback ecosystem, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. AOMedia
PacketZoom announced yesterday that it was partnering with Amazon CloudFront’s Web CDN, making it the first mobile app performance company to offer an end-to-end bundled mobile networking solution, the Mobile App Performance Management and Optimization (APMO). PacketZoom’s Mobile Expresslane service
Limelight Networks and Tencent Cloud recently announced a major reseller agreement that radically expands access to each company’s services. Limelight will offer its CDN customers in China its service through Tencent Cloud. Reciprocally, Tencent will offer CDN services from Limelight
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that Akamai has brought on Morgan Stanley to conduct a strategic review to evaluate its options, including a recommendation for a potential sale. Last month, Elliott Management disclosed it had acquired 6.5 percent of Akamai shares.
Juniper Networks, a Sunnyvale, California-based IT networking company, is making strides with its self-driving network with its recent announcement of Juniper Bots, a series of new applications that simplify network operations by translating intent into automated workflows. On its website,
AWS and Microsoft have joined forces to announce Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface, giving developers accessibility to easily and quickly build machine learning models for their apps and other services.
There’s some big news that was just announced regarding AWS. The word on the street, the Techcrunch street that is – AWS has acquired Harvest.ai, a security startup. Supposedly, AWS is “ramping up its security chops.” I wouldn’t call them
To make the lives of IT technicians easier and ease their migration to the cloud, AWS has launched AWS Managed Services as part of its portfolio. The solution uses automation and machine learning to assist the deployment and management of
Well, what do you know. Werner Vogels and The AWS Product Team are copy cats. The Lambda@Edge that was just announced today sounds very similar to a concept called EC-CDN that we’ve been writing about for the last several weeks.
Number of Cloud Products from Google, AWS & Azure Google (7 Products): Compute, Storage, Networking, Big Data, Machine Learning, Operations, Tools, and 37 sub-products Azure (12 Products): Compute, Web+Mobile, Data+Storage, Analytics, Networking, Hybrid Integration, IAM, Media+CDN, Developer Services, Management, Intelligence,
It’s interesting how one single action, especially one that flies under the radar of an entire community can be such a disruptive move that it will force a complete re-alignment within a sector. This one action occurred last week and
